Why is the Steam version so bad?

[Lilith]

Why is it that the Steam version of the game is so laggy? That it cannot give us any of the extra rewards from ads? That it has to download the entirety of the game again each time there is any sort of tiny little update? I doubt I'll get any sort of real answer, but I really need to vent about this bs.

I love the game and have been playing it so much over the past year, to the point that I go through the pain of transferring back and forth between my phone and PC every day... but these issues drive me nuts. Even keeping a backup of the game's contents folder to avoid re-download doesn't work when they release any sort of update, and I am getting really tired of the 2 hour download. I'd just stick to my phone, but I find mobile gaming unbearable, and would just drop the game in that case.

I'm glad that they added the JP voices at least, so maybe that means we'll get a more ideal version someday. What do you guys think about these issues? Anyone have some workarounds for this stuff?

[djAxis]

Agreed completely.

The game is really outstanding. The homage paid to Chrono Trigger by the devs, the music, the characters and their stories, it's all great! Hell, I don't even mind the gacha rates, grinding, and some of the other frustrating aspects of the game.

The ONE thing that's absolutely killing it for me is the update delivery and how god awful it is to spend hours upon hours on what should be small patches. I've gotten to the point where I don't even want to play the game until the update system is reworked. Not holding my breath for that ever happening, but it'd sure be nice if it did.

[Yuen]

It's much better to play it on an emulator until/if they do something about the stuttering. Even though they did finally add JP voices that players requested, the stutter is still hard to get through.

[Pabbles]

You can switch the game to Japanese to speed up menu navigation, achievement collection, and map navigation significantly. This shouldn't work like that but I think there's a huge text file for translation strings that gets fetched and unfetched for *each* string, and the heaviest section is the achievement section, with hundreds of them. Japanese is the base language so it skips that process... or at least that's my guess

Yeah 2 hours every time sucks, especially these last few weeks. The "regular" schedule looked like an update every 2.5 weeks, but it's been triple that frequency lately. When I come back from work and finish whatever upkeep stuff is on my plate at around 7pm, and find out there's an update in my short window before 11pm, it ain't great.

[djAxis]

Oh hey! Switching the written language to Japanese really does speed things up! Thanks for this, btw! It's scary that the time it takes to swap languages and collect awards, then swap back to English is faster than just waiting for the awards to register and collect them normally. Jeez...

[DeStroYeR]

Game only really has a bit of stutter during screen transistions and when loading stuff. Aside from that, it's fine.

[Pyromaniac]

The fking awards took 3 mins to load comparing to the mobile version it only took secs

[DeStroYeR]

Originally posted by Psychopath:

The fking awards took 3 mins to load comparing to the mobile version it only took secs

3 minutes? Strange. Takes like, 3-5 seconds for me.

[Lilith]

Originally posted by DeStroYeR:

Originally posted by Psychopath:

The fking awards took 3 mins to load comparing to the mobile version it only took secs

3 minutes? Strange. Takes like, 3-5 seconds for me.

In my experience, it takes longer the more awards you actually earn. It takes literal minutes to complete loading, and I have friends confirm it's gotten worse the more they've played. The general stuttering has occurred more for me as of late too, as my menus get more and more cluttered with new stuff. Certain characters also cause noticeable lag every time I highlight their abilities in battle. Definitely things that only happen with Steam, though.